Movie Binge
I’ve been on a serious movie binge lately in an unusual experiment where my easel and drawings are set up to keep me at the work while various movies play. Yesterday I saw Man Trouble with Jack Nicholson and Ellen Burstin, which is funny 80’s fare with classic Jack and a good script. Rumor Has It is a fluffball comedy with the brilliant Shirley McClean, Jennifer Anniston, Kevin Costner and Mark Ruffalo in a film where a Anniston plays a 30something who can’t quite settle down. This one is a funny premise, fine direction by Mr. Reiner, but light and sappy. My vote on these two movies head to head is Man Trouble, which has some classic lines like, ‘If the criminal has a weapon the dog will go directly for the groin; this will severely incapacitate the attacker’s brain’… I paraphrase but this Jack line was HYSTERICAL.
Recently I paired The Astronaut’s Wife, Johnny Depp and Charlieze Theron, with In the Cut, Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo. The Astronaut’s Wife suits my current UFO research as thousands of ufo sightings and movies can be viewed on youtube. The movie drags but maintains some intensity, it’s message is alarming, and I was suitably paranoid moving on to In The Cut. This is a strange yet well directed suspense movie where everyone can be the bad guy, even the good guy. This ‘all the guys are suspects’ formula is slightly tired but how else do you deliver guess work to an audience? Not every film can be the Illustionist. It’s very sexual, the main actors engage in graphic language and play, the direction is taught and moody, and I liked the movie.
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